[sunnykerr]

It's just weird to me. Like, when I think of what we should show kids... No one's saying full-on porn should be shown to all ages, but it seems to like healthy sexual practices aren't traumatizing. Violence on the other hand? How does that not warp a child?

I mean, I know plenty of people who loved horror flicks growing up, so it's a matter of perspective.

I just don't get what's so controversial about the human body. Everybody's got one!

[Firecrest]

That's for sure.

[sunnykerr]

Funny how that happens.

[Firecrest]

The puritans think they know better.

[sunnykerr]

The actual Puritains were very controlling. Seems to me like they mostly felt oppressed because the king wouldn't let them get on with their no-fun extremism.

[Firecrest]

I think so too despite being in school in the 90's being told that the pilgrims (who wore buckles) where trying to escape from religious oppression from the king and then moved to the America to escape the kings tyrannical yoke of terror. We know better now.

[sunnykerr]

I would imagine they had certain restrictions put on them on England, given that the new king was the son of the man who had been put to death by the political side of the so-called Puritans. It wasn't a democracy, so I'm sure the new king was quite ready to make sure they had no say whatsoever in public policy.

So, to go from having all the power to absolutely none... I can see some whiplash happening there.

Still, it's a mistake to believe that the people on the Mayflower were all seeking religious freedom. Many of them, quite understandably, were just seeking a better life for themselves. Nothing wrong with that. And it wasn't so much religious freedom for the rest of them as religious control.

[Firecrest]

That's for sure!

[sunnykerr]

I know, right?

[Firecrest]

Yup!

[sunnykerr]

Old movies, old movies... I love the Sissi movies, but no one outside the French or German world gets that.

[Firecrest]

I have never heard of Sissi movies, I wonder what they are about?

[sunnykerr]

Well, on the face of them, they're about the life of the real-life Empress Sissi of Austria. Of course, the movies (there are three of them) present, and I can't emphasize this enough, a WILDLY romanticized version of that life, presumably because the real story wasn't all that happy.

Which is some kind of ironic because the big behind-the-scenes story of those movies is about how the star, Romy Schneider, came to be the star. The movies also launched Romy Schneider's carreer. She was a teenager when the first one was filmed. And her mother, Magda, who had been a successful actress before also appears in them. During World War II, Magda was quite active as an actress and, at one time, Hitler said she was his favourite actress. I don't believe that means she was associated with the Nazis, but her career certainly slowed down after the war.

The first movie came out in 1955. So the story is that Madga was a bit of a stage mother, if you know what I mean. Trying to rekindle her own career or continue it through her daughter...

[reason to believe]

I’m Canadian and I haven’t heard of that either. They really don’t share Canadian French programming over in the west!

I’m currently watching The Birds. This movie never gets old! I love how the movie’s soundtrack is only the sound of birds, no musical score. And familiar faces, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright (who as an adult would be in the classic “Alien”)

[Tina]

Olivia de Havilland from Gone with the Wind passed away a few days ago at the age of 104.